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Subject: Re: [docbook] Re: Add topic element to DocBook?


Maybe <section> should just be extended to have the properties of the
proposed <topic>? I understand that marginalizes <chapter>.

On 10/27/06, Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu> wrote:
> Norman Walsh wrote:
>
>
> > Making a book of topics, something with sequential pages that's either
> > literally or virtually made out of dead trees, is an exercise in
> > choosing some sort of sequential order (hence the mapping/toc element)
> > for the topics.
> >
>
> It sounds like we're heading into overlap territory here, or maybe
> worse. It's not just DocBook that can't handle this. It's XML.
>
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